Tuesday, January 20, 2004

My site, http://j2ee.mine.nu ,
which is basically apache/tomcat, running on a linux box,
which was running on a PC in my study has been replaced by something better.

The spec of the old PC was:
200mhz pentium
64mb of ram
6gb hard disk

this adds up to one slow system, in todays terms, although back in 1997 when I bought this PC, I paid about £1800 for it!

I have only recently set up the site and put linux on it - Mandrake 10.0, so that I could have a java web development box semi-permenantly connected to the internet, but the old pC was just painfully slow.

This box was the cheapest one I could find with a 400W PSU. Very reasonably priced with a lot of features:
Clear window side panel
2 Front mounted USB and ports (In addition to the rear ones on motherboard
Stylish front panel with blue and red LED lights
This box also uses a single screw at the back, making it very quick to open up.
When purchased, from www.microdirect.co.uk, their site said the case only had one in fact it has two, one in the middle of the side panel, and one attached to a hole in the top